Glamour is an attractive and exciting charm. Old Hollywood glamour, the glamour of the job, add glamour.
It suggests surface and spectacle, so calling something glamorous is not quite the same as calling it beautiful. This is the British spelling; American writing has glamor, though the adjective is glamorous on both sides. The word began in Scots as a term for a magic spell.
1nounglamourAn attractive and exciting charm.
“She loved the glamour of Hollywood, with its parties and red carpets.”
glamour is a charm.
Also accepted in games: glamor
Scots glamour meant a magic spell, an altered form of grammar, which once meant occult learning. Grimoire is the same word.
Old Norse
glámr — the moon", also "the name of a ghost
Old French
gramaire
Middle English
gramere — grammar
Scots
glamour — magic
English, today
glamour
Built from
Scots glamour (“magic”), alteration of Middle English gramere (“grammar”), from Old French gramaire. a doublet of glamoury and gramarye and grammar and grimoire. A connection has also been suggested with Old Norse glámr (“the moon", also "the name of a ghost”) literally “the pale one” and glámsýni (“glamour, illusion”) literally “glam-sight”. From Grettir's Saga aka Grettis Saga, one of the Sagas of Icelanders, after the hero has been cursed by Glam, aka Glamr: "...he was become so fearsome a man in the dark, that he durst go nowhither alone after nightfall, for then he seemed to see all kinds of horrors.
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